DISTRICT COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 46, 22 July 1885, Page 3

DISTRICT COURT.

THIS DAY.

.r ' CpKCEALMENT OF BIRTA. • '; ' -• Begiha v. Gora Alice Elkina. ; f r Prisoner pleaded Not Guilty, and wa«, defeitflby Mr J. 11. Hapkins. „ ' : -t' Tjv§ following jury were then sworn,:?— "Sir Eo\tcll (foi-euian), .Tames Risk, Luke| 'Wflird,- Henry i>uke l '-V^yiHiain Carthew, • Gladstone,- 'William■ * Dawiekj; George %Garthy, William Francis^ p Dil^iell^. Cook, R. W. Robert. ;;;■ ; i \ The/ Grp%yn Prosecutor called HkrVfe t -Mitchell, who said : I am wife of Thbs.i Mitcheli, of Motoa," and know accused,■;aha. \vas livin? at my home; saw her about vMarch-; 1885 ; noticed something about. "het apjiearanee.she was stout; looked as; though she had a child ; she. cameto Jnei ifor^fiiLypur j' aitbrwards^ I she came to,, me BbkoflH'ery 111"; sh^lopked as; though: she hobe|n confined ; she said she had.; ill ; this was about 21st June ,; Jjslie ( jappeared as having been recentlyconfined.;. - • . : ' ; • -j; .Cross-examined. by. Mr Hankins : ' Hertcbndition was very noticeable; : there could ; be^iio manner ot doubt that r she was m; , ithe^fataily ; way.f : . • ; "h Mary Ann Elkins:- Am mothir of ac-^ cusedr^ live on the Mptoa road ; daughter 'hasbcen residing with me: since October r last m the house; ; m June last I noticed - my' daughter was getting stout ; after- ; wards my daughter complained. to me on Snndayj 21st ; ; she complained -of her \ hack" and side ; I rubbed her back and; ga^ her some * painkiller . on Monday > nischt'i tlie 22nd of last mouth ; she stayed iyntli .me that night ; I stayed up all. night attending hey; saw hen on Tuesday ; did not take particular notice -of her ; subsjquently she told me on THurtday that she lmdrgiyen bifth to a dead chil^d ; shu told-;ina r that voluntarily ; she said the child was bom at 8 o'clock a.m. on the Tuesday 23rd ; I; asked what she liad done with the child ; she said^ she 'had b^neditV'she did not know what to do y r ßhe hadiburied it without a thought"; there was mo, one else living with me; the : -Bame- room ; wh6n ; T a\v:oke on Tuesday'morning my daughter, was-notin the room. -• :: ; ri .: l . '"■■'■ '-'■■{<■ "The 'last witness was cross-examined by Mr Hankins, re-examiiied by Mr Pitzhßrbert, and examined by His Honor. After, wliiich Bnama^Lousia Elkins, also gave evidence. . •_ Aprons produced are my sister. After my sister told me she had buried the child, rinformed the police. I saw the i police dig tip the child. I did not ex-. ' aniine the cliild.^ The police showed me ii|ie ! aprdns produced. Sister told me the child was born on Tuißsday morning. Cross examined by Mr Hankins : I spoke to Dr Kbckstrow, before complaining ■ and he advised me to see the : jloiice. Francis Me Anulty, constable stationed at Fo,xton : Went with Detective . Ben-' jamin to Mrß Elkin's house. Saw accused, there aid also last witness, and' after speaking to her went to the garden found a child buried m the centre of a" flower-bed^ the last witness w*<? present. The body was wrapped m clothes produced. After child was found saw accused. She told Detective Benjamin she had a child on the previous- Tuesday : fct r 8 o'clock.. She said nobody knew anything about it. It was. dead, that ahe kept itin the room all day and buried it m the evening. She was subsequently arrested by Detective Benjamin who took charge of child. Cross examined by Mr Hankins : Prisoner's "sister came to me and informed about child. # . Lionel Benjamin : lam member, of the Detective Force. On 28th June last went to Elkin's House and saw acensed. Went into the garden and found body of a new born child buried m the garden. She told- me she had been delivered of a child, she was quite open about it. I tpok body ( to Dr Macintire at Palroerstpn'."'North* who held a post mortem on it.. John Henry Leigh .Macintire and Frank Beeves also gave evidence. After Mr Fitzherbert bad- replied and the Judge summed upbriefly.the jury retired, and m about half an hour returned a-verdict of Not Guilty. . .Court then adjourned until 2 o'clock. The Courkresumed at 2 o'clock. . -;H. _Weisnpr v. Wm Sykes to beheard to^io^w: tfie jury having been summoned for that day. - •■•'' •■•■'•. Be Mr ;Pf>ter Morrisi deceased.-. ,■■ i; > .■,-:.>■. '. M- Hankins appealed for the defondMint, who applied for letters of administration. .:. • v,i.; . ....... ■ „ ■■-••' , O rdor made as prayed upon husband entering into a bond by himself for twice tlicamnurifci and thus dispense with the usjial siireiiies. . Court adjourned until 11 : o'clock tomorrow.